A Plan of the English Commerce

"Defoe’s main economic work, A Plan of the English Commerce (1728), is almost forgotten now.[...] However, the book was a thorough and insightful account of Tudor industrial policy (under England’s Tudor monarchs) that has much to teach us today. [...] Defoe clearly shows that it was not the free market but government protection and subsidies that developed British woolen manufacturing." Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans, pp. 23-26 (2008, Bloomsbury Publishing)